Monday, November 5, 2012

The City Girl Goes to the Country

I am sorry for my sporadic posts! I have been to several
interesting places in the last two weeks, but I also had two research papers to
write and two presentations. Life will
be quite a bit calmer this week.

The weekend before Halloween Christopher and I searched for
a pumpkin patch. We found Treworgy Farms in Levant, about twenty minutes away
from our house.

There is no other way to explain the afternoon except as
magical. The arrived just before dusk, the weather was gorgeous and the scenery
was divine. It was everything an autumn afternoon should be.

We raced around a corn maze and got free ice cream for our efforts.

We picked out pumpkins, many of which were still on the vine.

We explored the little farm which contained
several horses, a few tractors and an apple orchard. We befriended the very
sweet family who has worked there for fifteen years. We went home with half a
peck of apples, two perfect pumpkins, an apple cider doughnut and a little
present for my family. I hope to be able to visit the farm again, which is working
on being open all year. It was a
wonderful, wonderful afternoon.